Nurses who led the way in which: Florence Nightingale

The creator of recent nursing, Florence Nightingale, was born on May 12, 1820, so it’s fitting that Nurses Week ends on her birthday. Despite her wealthy parents’ desires to steer a traditional upper-class life, Nightingale longed to serve others, and in 1851, while studying in Germany, she began her nursing profession. In 1853, she became the director of a hospital for noblewomen.

In 1854, the Crimean War broke out and Nightingale went to Turkey to steer a team of nurses in British military hospitals. During the war, witnessed terrible sanitary conditions while supervising the work of 38 nurses at Scutari. Using statistical data evaluation, she managed to cut back mortality in medical facilities and called for reforms in all British military hospitals.

In 1860 she founded the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St. Thomas’ in London. Environmental theory, otherwise generally known as the ‘Nightingale Model’, trained nurses after which sent them to work in facilities across the UK. Her nursing theories were published in 1860.

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